Sat.Aug 18, 2018 - Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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Get Your Readers to Stay Longer With These 4 Formats

Content Marketing Institute

Getting people to click to read your content is hard, whether you’re trying to entice them in an email or tempt them in the search engine results. But once you finally get them on your page, you must work even harder to keep them there. Lots of technical ways can keep them from bouncing (faster load times, minimum pop-ups, clear site navigation, etc.).

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How Long Should Your Blog Post Be?

ProBlogger

The post How Long Should Your Blog Post Be? appeared first on ProBlogger. Today’s post is by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke. When I started blogging in 2008, there was a (roughly) agreed-on standard for blog posts: you should post around 500 words every weekday. Now that I look back on that, it seems pretty silly. Some topics can be adequately covered in 300 words, while others might need 5,000.

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How to Use Your Analytics for Smarter Content Decisions

Content Marketing Institute

Gone are the days of counting coupons to see how well people engaged with your brand’s marketing promotion. In a digital world, you no longer have to make educated guesses about which marketing tactics resulted in a brand success (or failure). Data from your customers and prospects is almost limitless. You can follow each and every digital interaction they have with your brand.

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5 Tools to Help Your Content Marketing Team Be Better

Content Marketing Institute

Almost all B2C and 96% of B2B brands rely on internal resources to execute their content marketing program. These in-house providers range from small or centralized teams serving the entire organization to individuals leading department efforts. No matter the configuration, a well-trained in-house content marketing team is a competitive advantage. But what makes a team exceptional?

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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257: 3 Writing Tips That Helped Kelly Grow Her Readership by 500%

ProBlogger

The post 257: 3 Writing Tips That Helped Kelly Grow Her Readership by 500% appeared first on ProBlogger. How One Blogger Grew Her Readership by 500% with Help from Three Practical Writing Tips. In this episode we continue our Blogging Breakthroughs series, this time with a story from my friend Kelly Exeter. Kelly is a regular speaker at our events, has contributed ProBlogger content as a guest writer, and has been a guest on this podcast several times.

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Struggling With Brand Loyalty? Ideas to Consider for Lifetime Customers

Content Marketing Institute

What does it mean to create loyal customers in a world where your competitors can be everywhere at once, shopping habits are increasingly search driven, and a single social misstep can quickly erode the favorable reputation it took your brand years to build? It has become all too common for brands to promote brand loyalty simply by lavishing reward points on anybody willing to identify as a customer or load an app on their phone.

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How LinkedIn Spun to the Top of Search for LinkedIn Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Jason Miller is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. . Less than five years ago, social media giant LinkedIn wasn’t the top result for searches related to LinkedIn for marketing. Sites that covered social media best practices, such as Social Media Examiner, outranked it.